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It is a billionaire computer scientist the next space tourist

Washington, Usa - The man has worked for Microsoft and is willing to spend USD 20m to realize his dream

It is ready to lift the next space tourist. It is called Charles Simonyi, is 58 years old and is an American Hungarian-born billionaire computer scientist who also worked for important projects like Word or Excel. He will lift with the crew of the Russian Soyuz which is scheduled to take off on March 9th. Simonyi will spend USD 20m to make the space journey, a price that can be paid to realized a...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 67817
Rome, Italy, 10/27/2006 17:25
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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